I am trying to recover a PS4 drive, however when attempting to boot into Spinrite to run recovery tools on it, the system does not pass the bios screen. I pulled the drive and tried a different drive, and Sprinrite starts up just fine, so I feel like there is something seriously wrong with this drive. Is there a trick, or something simple that I am missing or do I call it for this PS4 drive? I am booting Spinrite from a USB on an old laptop that has reliably been my test bench for quite some time, and the drive I am attempting to recover is in where the normal OS drive would typically be.
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How long did you wait? On troubled drives, the BIOS can take a long time to give up and move on. Also, if your BIOS has anything labeled "SMART", turn it off for now.
Yesterday, I also encountered a drive that hung at the BIOS. Hitting the machine's reset button allowed it to try a second time and that time it whizzed right through.
What can sometimes happen is a drive takes longer than the BIOS expects to get itself online. So not powering down, but only rebooting again (hopefully CTRL-ALT-DEL will work) can often get past the BIOS.
Also... you are using the latest SpinRite 6.1 pre-releases? The code we have now is FAR BETTER than 6.0 (and even earlier 6.1). So do get the latest.
Hmm. It's an older bios but there should be a reset in there somewhere. I'll give it a shot. Funny enough, I started working on this drive and remembered there was an updated version of SpinRite. My plan was to get the troubled drive started on level 2 while I went about getting the update. I got a little distracted.Yesterday, I also encountered a drive that hung at the BIOS. Hitting the machine's reset button allowed it to try a second time and that time it whizzed right through.
What can sometimes happen is a drive takes longer than the BIOS expects to get itself online. So not powering down, but only rebooting again (hopefully CTRL-ALT-DEL will work) can often get past the BIOS.
Also... you are using the latest SpinRite 6.1 pre-releases? The code we have now is FAR BETTER than 6.0 (and even earlier 6.1). So do get the latest.
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